From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:39:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-hg: fix path when cloning with tilde expansion
Message-ID: <7vmwoq304o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1Ky2AkEt-XS_nAo=_RrPXSVAL=8cGiMuJabw0=BRU0Dw@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> OK, I think I see why you are puzzled.
>>>>
>>>> Cloning works fine because we "fix the path" *after* the clone is done
>>>> successfully, for the following reason:
>>>
>>> So if we didn't store a different path, it would work. So instead of
>>> expanding '~' ourselves, it would be better to don't expand anything,
>>> and leave it as it is, but how to detect that in fix_path()?
>>
>> I think that the patch relies on that os.path.expanduser(), if
>> url.path is such a path that begins with "~" (or "~whom"), returns
>> an absolute path.  When given an absolute path, or "~whom/path",
>> fix_path returns without running 'git config' on remote.<alias>.url
>> configuration.
>
> I think ~whom/path would run 'git config'.

Hmph, do you mean the third example of this?

        $ python
        >>> import os
        >>> os.path.expanduser("~/repo")
        '/home/junio/repo'
        >>> os.path.expanduser("~junio/repo")
        '/home/junio/repo'
        >>> os.path.expanduser("~felipe/repo")
        '~felipe/repo'

which will give "~felipe/repo" that is _not_ an absolute repository
because no such user exists on this box?

It is true that in that case fix_path() will not return early and
will throw a bogus path at "git config", but if the "~whom" does not
resolve to an existing home directory of a user, I am not sure what
we can do better than what Antoine's patch does.